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Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.(C.S. Lewis, "The Screwtape Letters")

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.(C.S. Lewis, "The Screwtape Letters")

All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem to him in comparison but as the half nauseous attractions of a raddled harlot would seem to a man who hears that his true beloved whom he has loved all his life and whom he had believed to be dead is alive and even now at his door.(C.S. Lewis, "The Screwtape Letters")

By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the the impossible.(C.S. Lewis, "The Screwtape Letters")

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.(C.S. Lewis, "The Screwtape Letters")

He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality.(C.S. Lewis, "The Screwtape Letters")

The duty of planning tomorrow's work is today's duty; though its material is borrowed from the future, the duty, like all duties, is in the Present.(C.S. Lewis, "The Screwtape Letters")

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.(C.S. Lewis, "The Screwtape Letters")

The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.(C.S. Lewis, "The Screwtape Letters")